Watchtower Medical Team

 A volunteer group of Jehovah's Witness doctors left Manila Tuesday to assist victims of the typhoon in Tacloban, Samar and Leyte. They carried nearly 200kg of medical supplies including antibiotics. We wish them much success...

The Day the Twin Towers Collapsed Survivors Tell Their Stories

THE events of September 11, 2001, in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania will be indelibly impressed on the minds of millions, if not billions, of the world’s inhabitants. Where were you when you saw...

Doctors find patients do better without blood transfusions

A recent study suggests that Jehovah's Witnesses are on to something. — In the Archives of Internal Medicine, doctors from the Cleveland Clinic reported last month that Witnesses who underwent cardiac surgery without a blood...

Making the case for bloodless surgery

Jehovah's Witnesses base their refusal of blood transfusions on verses in several books of the Bible. Because North Sider Charles Taze Russell's teachings were the basis for those beliefs, it seems appropriate that Allegheny General...

At Least 27 Dead, 30 Injured in Traffic Accident in Ecuador

QUITO – At least 27 people died and 30 others were injured Sunday in a bus crash in the northern Ecuadorian province of Imbabura, said Victor Bazantes, with the fire department in the city of...

High Court grants hospital permission to give blood to Jehovah’s Witness child

The High Court has granted a Dublin maternity hospital orders allowing it to perform, if required, an emergency blood transfusion to the unborn child of a Jehovah's Witnesses couple who is at risk of being...

State Supreme Court dismisses Jehovah’s Witnesses blood transfusion lawsuit

  A Staten Island Justice has dismissed a 5-year-old lawsuit filed against Dr. Allen Fuchs and the Staten Island University Hospital at the state supreme court by a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses Nancy DiGeronimo...

Jehovah’s Witness wins transplant case

TOPEKA | The state of Kansas violated a Jehovah’s Witness’ constitutional right to exercise her religious faith when it denied her request for an out-of-state liver transplant, a state appeals court ruled this morning.A three-judge...

Jehovah’s Witness asks Kansas Court of Appeals to allow bloodless liver transplant

TOPEKA, Kan. — An attorney for a Jehovah's Witness told the Kansas Court of Appeals on Wednesday that her client is willing to die for her faith rather than get a liver transplant paid for...